64 Best Online Gaming Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Online Gaming Startups

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There are 244 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $89.3m.

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$1.7b

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Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.

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$1.0m

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Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website.

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$35.0m

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Stardust is a company that develops solutions for gaming in the metaverse.

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2

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$19.0m

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Fnatic is a professional eSports organization with headquarters in London.

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3

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$95.5m

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PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

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3

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$5.1m

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Rainway is a Seattle-based developer of real-time, low-latency tools for streaming, intended for developers and organizations to develop interactive streaming.

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2

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$18.2m

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Xplore is a spacecraft development company focused on launching space missions to Mars, Venus, the Moon, and asteroids.

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4

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$166.0m

Money raised

Winzo is an India-based gaming and entertainment platform.

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$53.3m

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Horizon's Sequence platform will provide a scalable Ethereum architecture for third-parties to build and launch decentralized games that are provably fair, enable true digital ownership, and that reward activity by players on the network.

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$49.5m

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Statespace is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Jay Fuller and Wayne Mackey.

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$150.0k

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GamingFrog is a Boca Raton, Florida-based competitive gaming platform that allows individuals and communities to compete in competitive tournaments for money.

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$46.0m

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Independent, innovative, and utterly player-focused; we are a AAA video game developer passionate about creating next-generation experiences that players will remember forever.

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$12.0m

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Faceit is an independent competitive gaming platform.

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$4.0m

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A mobile application company connecting gamers to like-minded teammates. Its headquarters are located in New York City, New York and the company was founded in 2018.

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1

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$12.0m

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Ampverse is a Singapore-based company founded in 2019 by Ferdinand Gutierrez.

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$690.0k

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GODSENT is a Swedish professional esports organization founded in 2016 by former Fnatic in-game leader Markus "pronax" Wallsten and entrepreneur Tomas Oropesa Martin.

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gDEX Metaverse is a gaming platform in the metaverse.

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$15.0m

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Developer and publisher of fulfilling free-to-play online games. Available across browsers, mobile and social networks. Learn more.

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$3.3m

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A technology company that is enabling esports teams to monetize through its AI-powered sponsorship platform.

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$1.2b

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Mobile Premier League is a company founded in 2018 by Sai Srinivas Kiran G.

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$525.0m

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Dream Games is a Turkey-based mobile game development company.

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$5.0m

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Arkadium is a New York City-based company founded in 2001 by Kenny Rosenblatt.

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$460.5m

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Bigpoint Games is an Hamburg-based company founded in 2002.

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Jagex is a software company founded in 2001 by Andrew Gower.

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$6.3m

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Starform was started by industry veterans with the goal of changing the way people play games together.We believe that the best teams make the best games - teams that have a shared vision that they want to build together and bring to players around the world. Our teams work directly with players and chart their own course.

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$300.0k

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Node Capital is a technology development and data science company which provides cryptocurrency data solutions to hedge funds and trading firms.

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$150.0m

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PortalOne is a gaming startup delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

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$6.0m

Money raised

Kongregate is a company founded in 2006.

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$14.1m

Money raised

Turnip is a live game streaming and community platform.

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$14.0m

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Branch is building next-gen captivating social games in web3.

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$5.8m

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Snatch is an AR Gaming Experience.

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2

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$95.0m

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Optimove is a privately-held company that develops and markets a software as a service (saas) software product, also called optimove, for the automation of personalized customer retention marketing

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$1.3m

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GameLynx is a mobile eSport gaming company founded in 2016 by Alexander Mistakidis.

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$1.5m

Money raised

Battlefy is a company founded in 2012 by Justin Wong.

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2

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$29.5m

Money raised

A gaming studio that designs technology for cross-platform gaming experiences.

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3

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$91.0m

Money raised

Skybox Imaging is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2009 by Ching-Yu Hu.

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$91.7m

Money raised

Metafy is a platform that enables online players in the world to monetize their talent through 1:1 coaching and courses.

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$50.0k

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aBioBot is a company developing and building robots for molecular biology laboratories. It offers an open source liquid handling robot platform integrated with machine learning and computer vision.

$900.0k

Money raised

Streamloots is a blockchain company founded in 2018 by Javier Pastor Sánchez.

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$51.7m

Money raised

Rooter develops a game streaming platform that connects users with similar sports interests.

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$17.5m

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GameDuell is a Berlin-based company founded in 2003 by Kai Bolik, Michael Kalkowski and Boris Wasmuth.

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$7.8m

Money raised

Reach Robotics is a company that is commmitted to creating advanced and accessible robotics to entertain, inspire and educate people.

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$2.5m

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FanAI is an AI-driven audience monetization platform focusing on esports, its sponsor ecosystem, increasing sponsorship revenues, and making fan data actionable

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$2.8m

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QLASH is an Esports organization that aims to promote and bring innovation to the Esports industry.

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$35.0m

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Misfits Gaming is an American esports organization based in Miami

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$140.0m

Money raised

Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.

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$12.0m

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Selventa is a scientific consulting services company founded in 2002 by Mike Masterson.

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$40.0m

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Fanclash is a real Money Esports Fantasy and Engagement Platform founded in 2020 by Rishabhanatha.

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$3.5m

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Gameflip is creating the commerce engine for the gaming Metaverse

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$2.0m

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Provider of an online event-discovery platform. The company provides information about entertainment events for the underground culture, including happy hours, loft rock concerts, bike parties, masquerades, burlesque and other social events along with an invite-only membership for the users.

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Fobo is a San Francisco-based company founded by Ed McManus.

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$8.3m

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Playdek is a Carlsbad, California-based company founded in 2011.

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A technology company offering a video streaming-based social media platform.

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$5.9m

Money raised

Pandascore is an esports data & odds provider founded in 2015.

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$5.0m

Money raised

Nifty League is a company founded in 2021 by Andrew Mahoney-Fernandes, Ali Timnak and Mike Scott.

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$18.3m

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Community Gaming is a company founded in 2019 by Chris Gonsalves.

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8

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$303.0m

Money raised

Genvid's SDK enables developers to create and deliver premium interactive broadcasts to livestreaming audiences.

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$43.5m

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Developer of online games platform designed to create, distribute and manage VR games.

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$200.0k

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Lootcakes is anonline service that unites and offers rewards the spenders of the F2P gaming ecosystem.

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$3.0m

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Alawar is a Novosibirsk-based company founded in 1999.

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$27.5m

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Powerful no-code tools, available multi-platform, built for Web3

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$39.7m

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Bio Architecture Lab is a company and pioneer in the application of synthetic biology.

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$1.8m

Money raised

Subdream Studios is a blockchain company founded in 2016 by Jikhan Jung.

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$16.8m

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Players' Lounge is a company founded in 2019 by Austin Woolridge, Zach Dixon and Dan Delaney.

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